Beyond Water Harvesting
A Soil Hydrology Perspective on Traditional Southwestern Agricultural Technology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2591686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven Dominguez, Steven R Dominguez (Washington State University, corresponding author), Kenneth E Kolm (Washington State University) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 732-765 |
| Publication date | 2005-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/40035872 |
| OpenAlex | W2313151371 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 22 |
This article presents a hypothetical, general model that describes the processes involved in one aspect of traditional Southwestern agriculture: the interactions between soil hydrology and farming technology. In conjunction with extensive participation in hand cultivation with Hopi farmers, studies of soil hydrologic processes in Hopi maize fields have identified hydrological processes directly linked to Hopi field location criteria and farming practices. Field location criteria select for locations where soil textures and soil profile heterogeneity control rates of moisture infiltration, as well as loss to runoff, bare soil evaporation, and drainage. Farming practices, including clearing, maintenance, plant spacing, seed depth, and planting pit morphology, operate in conjunction with soil profile attributes to increase the amount of moisture available to plants and the mobility of that moisture. Effects of both soil profile attributes and farming practices are integrated into the discrete soil volume model of hydrologic processes occurring in the basic unit of Hopi farming, the individual plant clump. This information provides basic insights on ways archaeologists might evaluate the productive potentials of soils, the extent of farmable land around prehistoric communities, and the ranges of climate conditions that permit crop growth on that land
Agriculture · Agroforestry · Dryland farming · Geography · Hopi · Hydrology (agriculture) · Soil classification · Soil water · Surface runoff · USDA soil taxonomy · Ecology · Environmental Science · Geology · Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics · Soil and Unsaturated Flow · Soil erosion and sediment transport · Soil Science
Footprints of Hopi History
A comparison of suitability models to identify prehistoric agricultural fields in western New Mexico
Social adaptive responses to a harsh and unpredictable environment
GIS modeling of agricultural suitability in the highlands of the Jornada branch of the Mogollon culture of southcentral New Mexico
Factors Controlling Pre-Columbian and Early Historic Maize Productivity in the American Southwest, Part 1
Ancestral Pueblo Archaeology
Biogeochemical studies of a Native American runoff agroecosystem
Agriculture and community in Chaco Canyon
Modeling agricultural potential in Chaco Canyon during the Bonito phase
Prehistoric Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Agricultural suitability of the Chaco Canyon Region, New Mexico
Geoarchaeology of a Late Prehistoric Water Storage Feature at Pueblo Oso Negro, Chupadera Basin, New Mexico
Shared Image Metaphors of the Corn Lifeway in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest
Water Management and the Political Economy of Chaco Canyon During the Bonito Phase (ca. AD 850-1200)
The Bonito Paleochannel in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
The Archaeology of the Bonito Paleochannel Cycle at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
How Many People Lived in the Chaco Regional System, and Why It Matters
Rainfall and circular moated sites in north-east Thailand
Volcanic climate forcing, extreme cold and the Neolithic Transition in the northern US Southwest
Northern Uto-Aztecan and Kiowa-Tanoan
Shabik'Eschee Village in Chaco Canyon
Comparing Maize Paleoproduction Models with Experimental Data
Let Them Plant Their Own
A Maize Experiment in a Traditional Zuni Agroecosystem
Farming the Great Sage Plain
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,32 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2025 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |